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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11833, 14 January 1933, Page 3

BSESsasHasiEftaaEH ik assaaaa* SO f« oo'F DAViD STRANG LTD g SHVEECASStLI. 'aMß' EKULSION heals weak lunas GOOD Timber TEaW What WE Sell! Only prime, well lettoned wood* here. The men who know* Timber has long ago rea 7 red that thit it the place for a “fair deal” in price and quality.. 'We’ll terve YOU WELL I cr era offered George Smith Timber s Mercha*t, Ceotrictor, 280 CUdttMa R»ad, GISBORNE. 'Pk«*» -*O4.

A North Auckland motorist just os- | caped a unique experience. He' was ■ northward-hound from Auckland, and , called at a wayside store to get a few gallons of benzine, lie left the j car-for a few minutes, and when ue ; came back the storekeeper said- the «* tank would hold only'half a' ■gallon—what would he do with the rest.? The | owner unscrewed the rap of his tank j and found it nearly empty. Invest!- | cations were made, and it turned outthat the storekeeper had poured the ' benzine into the oil tank, .which on ] that particular car is on top of.-the.-I engine. It took an hour to'drain the j. tank, and the traveller mopped hU \ brow •as he thought of what: would L have happened had he started hjs.eu. j gine. - | (Hie international «- cable news -up- 4 pearing in this issue is published by | arrangement with the Australian j Press Association and the “Sun-Tier* j aid” News Service Ltd.) - , '• 5 Rais and mice during the holidays | overran the offices of • the New-Lynn- | Borough Council and: chewed -up por- | tion.s of tlie borough's— .documentary w records. A nest of 50 baby, mice $ was discovered in a corner of one’ of | the rooms. liOarning of the inch' | dent, a littlo girl in the locality lias | presented the borough with, a male J. and a female. eat, and ?heu accoitf- 1 panied the gift with- a- request that « they bo named respectively after fbo , L Mayor and •- 'MriyoressJ---'-' ‘ “George” * and “Morton’’ are now engaged, in [ the extermination business, ,v . y . : -n: ' : : - -; - --A ■